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11.29.2006

To A First Time Mother

Relax my dear.Your little elfIs just an amateur himself.So if your hands, so newly filledWith tasks, seem somewhatless than skilled.Relax I say.This little pinklingDoesn’t have the slightest inklingThat you are new to baby lore.He never had a mom before!
Helen Rittell

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Hi! My Mom is Helen Rittell & her poem "To A First-time Mother" appeared in Saturday Evening Post magazine. She would be delighted to know her verse lives on more than 50 years after it was published, but would want her name to be spelled correctly. There are two "l's" in Rittell. Thanks. Gail Rittell Ahern.